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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

