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...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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