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Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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