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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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