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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
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