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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

