Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown