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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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