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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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