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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
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