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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

