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...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
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...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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