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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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