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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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