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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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