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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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