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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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