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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

