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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston