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...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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