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

