Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

