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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...

