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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

