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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor 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