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...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

