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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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