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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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