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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

