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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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