Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

