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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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