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