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The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
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