Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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