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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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