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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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