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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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