Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
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...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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