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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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