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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
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...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

