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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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