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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

