We are part of The Trust Project. LUVERNE, Minn. -- At Blue Mounds State Park, swallows flit around the Manfred House hunting mosquitos. It’s built into an outcropping of red Sioux quartzite ...

Novelist Frederick Manfred was riding a wave of success in 1959 when he began building an unconventional house in southwestern Minnesota within the boundaries of what's now Blue Mounds State Park.

As the Manfred House in southern Minnesota is listed on National ... Currently it serves as the interpretive center at Blue Mounds State Park but it has been closed since 2015 because ...

The former Frederick Manfred home opened as an interpretive center for the Blue Mounds State Park in 1976. It was closed in 2015 due to serious structural problems, from rotting beams to ponding ...

Blue Mounds State Park acquired the house just north of Luverne in the 1970s and made it the visitor center. Manfred hosted occasional events at the site, even after he moved to Roundwind, his ...

Some of those stories fell onto the page in a one-room tower in the center of Manfred's unusual house, a wood-and-stone perch built into a bluff at Blue Mounds State Park in the southwest corner ...

Novelist Frederick Manfred was riding a wave of success in 1959 when he began building an unconventional house in southwestern Minnesota within the boundaries of what’s now Blue Mounds State ...

Blue Mounds State Park, named for a long, high Sioux quartzite cliff, is located in southwestern Minnesota on the Iowa and South Dakota borders. The cliff, one and one-half miles long and up to ...

LUVERNE, Minn. -- The Blue Mounds State Park may be southwest Minnesota's gem on the prairie, but some of its amenities have lost their lustre. Rotting beams in the park's interpretive center ...

LUVERNE -- Post-conviction relief for Randy Leeroyal Swaney, convicted in August 2008 for the murder of Carrie Nelson in Luverne's Blue Mounds State Park, was denied in action taken Wednesday by ...