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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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