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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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