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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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