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...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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