Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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