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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
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
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

