Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
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
Old Brewery In Preston