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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

