Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

