Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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