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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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