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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

