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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
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 Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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