Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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 Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown