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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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