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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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