Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

