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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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...

