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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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