Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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