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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

