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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

