Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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