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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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