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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

