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Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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