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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

