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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul