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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
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...
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
Old Brewery In Preston