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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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