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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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