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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

