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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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