Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown