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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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