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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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