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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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