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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

