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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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