Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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