Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

