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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
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