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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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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