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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

