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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
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...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor 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