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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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