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Twin Cities Area
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown