Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

