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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
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