Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

