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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

