Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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