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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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