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
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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