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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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