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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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