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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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