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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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