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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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