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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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