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