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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

