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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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