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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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