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