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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul