Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

