Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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