Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

