Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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