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