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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In 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