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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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