Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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