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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
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
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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