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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
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
Old Brewery In Preston