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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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