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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

