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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

