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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

