Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

