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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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