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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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