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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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