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...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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