Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

