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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

