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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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