Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

