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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

