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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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