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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston