Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

