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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

