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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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