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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
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