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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you ๐ The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

