Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
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...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

