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

