Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

