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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown