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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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