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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

