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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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