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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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