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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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