Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

