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
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...

