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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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