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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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