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
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown