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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

