Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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