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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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
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