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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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