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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
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...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

