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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
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...
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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