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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

