Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

