Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

