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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

