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Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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