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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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