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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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