Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

