Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown