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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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