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...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

