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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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