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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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