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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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