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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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