Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Twin Cities Area
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

