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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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