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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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