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
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

