Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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