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