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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor 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