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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

