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...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

