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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
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