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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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