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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
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 Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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