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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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
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