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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...

