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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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