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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

