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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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