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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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