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Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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