Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

