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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown