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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

