Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...

