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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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