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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
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
Old Brewery In Preston