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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

