Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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