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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

