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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...

