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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
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...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
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