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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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