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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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...

