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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

