Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown