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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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