All of Theodore and Louise Hammโs children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Twin Cities Area
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasnโt set up to show talkies. As the...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

