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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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