Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
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