Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

