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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

