Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

