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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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