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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
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...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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