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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...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

