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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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