Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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