Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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