A Minneapolis mansion is one of the country’s cultural and architectural gems.
The Turnblad Mansion is the crown jewel of the American Swedish Institute.
“The mansion has a lot of different secrets,” Inga Theisen with the American Swedish Institute said. “It’s never quite what you think it is. It still manages to surprise me.”
The mansion dates back to when Swan Turnblad immigrated to Minnesota from Sweden. After making his money as the owner of the largest Swedish newspaper in America, Turnblad built a mansion on Park Avenue, which was known as Minneapolis’ Golden Mile…