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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
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...
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