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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
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
Old Brewery In Preston