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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
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...
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

