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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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