Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

