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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

