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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

