Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

