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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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