Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...

