Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown