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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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