Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City