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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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