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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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