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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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