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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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...

