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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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