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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
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