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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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