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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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