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

