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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

