Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

