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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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