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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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