The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Twin Cities Area
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City