Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

