Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown