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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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