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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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