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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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