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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

