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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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