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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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