Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...

