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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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