Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

