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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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