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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

