Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

