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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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