Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston