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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
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
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

