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Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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