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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
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...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown