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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
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...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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