Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
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...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

