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...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
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