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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown