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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

