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