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

