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