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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

