Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

