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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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