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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

