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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

