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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
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...
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

