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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

