Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

