Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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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