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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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