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...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...

