Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...

