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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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