Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

