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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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