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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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