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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

