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
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

