All of Theodore and Louise Hammโs children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Twin Cities Area
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

