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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown