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