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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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