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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City