Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

