Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

