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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
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...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

