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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
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...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

