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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
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