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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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