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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

