Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

