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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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
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...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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