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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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