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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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