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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

