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 Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

