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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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