Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

