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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
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