All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Twin Cities Area
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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