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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

