Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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