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