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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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