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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

