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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

