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