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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

