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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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