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Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul