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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown