Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

