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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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