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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
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