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The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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