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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown