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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

