Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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