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