Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

