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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston