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