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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

