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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
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
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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