Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
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...

