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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

