Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

