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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

