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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

