Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

