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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

