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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

