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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

