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Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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