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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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