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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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