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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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