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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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