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...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

