Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

