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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

