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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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