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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

