Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

