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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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