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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

