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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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