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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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