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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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