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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

