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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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