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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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