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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown