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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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