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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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