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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

