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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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