Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

