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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

