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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown