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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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