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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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