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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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