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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

