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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

