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...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

