Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown