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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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