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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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