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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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