Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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