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

