Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
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...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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