Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

