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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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