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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In 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