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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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