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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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