Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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