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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

