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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
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
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

