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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

