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...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
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...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

