Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

