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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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