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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
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...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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