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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery sits at the base of a bluff along the Root River, a site known for its scenic...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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