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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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