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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of 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
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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