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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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