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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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