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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
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...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
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