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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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