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Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

