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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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