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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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