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
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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