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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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