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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown