Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
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