Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

