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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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