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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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