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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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