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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
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