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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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