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