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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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