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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
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