Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City