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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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