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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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