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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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