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Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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