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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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