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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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...
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul