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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
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...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City