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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

