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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

