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
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
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...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

