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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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