Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul