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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown