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
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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