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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...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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