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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...

