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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
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...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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