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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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