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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

