Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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