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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

