Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

