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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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