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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston