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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

