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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown