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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

