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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

