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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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