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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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