Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

