Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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