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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

