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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

