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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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