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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

