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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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