Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

