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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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