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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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