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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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