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