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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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