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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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