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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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