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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
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...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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