Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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