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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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