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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

