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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown