Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

