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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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