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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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