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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

