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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

