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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

