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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didnโt know where I was. I certainly didnโt...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286โ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
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...
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

