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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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
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