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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

