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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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