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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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