Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

