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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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 East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown