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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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