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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

