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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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