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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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