Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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