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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

