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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

