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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

