Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

