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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston