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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

