Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
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
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

