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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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