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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown