Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Twin Cities Area
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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