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Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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