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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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