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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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