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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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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