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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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