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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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